All memberships expire after December 31 of each year. However it does not mean your membership is inactivated on January 1 if you have not renewed before then.

The ISBA affiliated member associations have until the end of April to submit renewals for their membership. If you belong to an ISBA affiliated bee keeping association, your ISBA membership renewal should be handled through your association. You should not need to do anything other than renew your local association membership fee (of which $10 gets forwarded to the ISBA for your membership).

Some associations are very prompt in submitting their renewals for each year. If they indicate you are no longer a member of the association, your membership may be inactivated before the end of April.

If your local association does not collect ISBA dues or if you are a Member At Large (an ISBA member only, not a member of an ISBA affiliated association), you can renew your membership directly by mailing your membership renewal fee (check or money order for the amount of $10 made payable to the Illinois State Beekeepers Association) to the below:

Please include the full name, mailing address and email address of the person(s) the membership fee is being submitted for.

If you are a Member At Large and we have a valid email address for you, we will send you a onetime renewal notice each year to ask you renew within 30 days of the email. If we do not receive a renewal, your membership will be moved to inactive status after the 30 days.

If you are one of the few life time ISBA members, you do not need to do anything; your membership is automatically extended each year.

There will be a reminder note In the March/April issue of the Bulletin each year to check the expiration date contained in the address label. If the expiration date shows December 31 of the preceding year, then the March/April issue will be the last issue you will receive as your membership will be inactivated until a membership renewal is received.

Why do we ask for your email address?

The ISBA will send periodic emails to members for whom we have a valid and deliverable email address on file. It may be to alert you of a certain issue or event or to advise you to expect a bulletin in your mailbox soon.

We do not sell, give away or rent your membership information to any vendor who wants to sell you a product, service or idea. If a vendor approaches the ISBA with such a request, we advise them to provide the information and we will distribute the information about the product, service or idea to the membership.

The email system utilized to send emails to membership, does not allow duplicate email addresses. If there are multiple ISBA members with the same email address, only one will receive the email. This can be resolved by providing a unique email address for each person.

I am not getting a bulletin mailed directly to me.

If you have never received a bulletin or if it stopped arriving at your mail box, it could be due to one of the following:

You moved and did not file a change of address with the Post Office, nor have you notified the ISBA or your local ISBA affiliated association of the new address.

You have not provided a mailing address to the ISBA or to your local ISBA affiliated association.

You have requested a printed copy of the bulletin not be mailed to you. If you have done so in the past, you can resume receiving a printed copy by notifying the Membership Director you would like to resume receiving a printed copy.

I have never received an email from the ISBA or no longer receive them.

If you have not received or not longer receive an email from the ISBA, it may be due to one of the following:

The email address on file for you is invalid (not deliverable).

You changed your email address since joining the ISBA or your local ISBA affiliated association and did not provide the new email address.

We do not have an email address on file for you.

The email may be going to your junk or spam email folder. You need to identify the illinois.state.beekeepers@gmail.com address as a safe email address (not junk or spam).